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▪ Customers buy 50 percent more KFC on Mother’s Day. Stores that sell an average 60 buckets on a Sunday will sell an average 95 buckets on Mother’s Day.

▪ The five cities where people are more likely to get KFC for Mother’s Day are Bluefield, Va., Clarksburg, W.Va., Erie, Pa, Topeka, Kan., and Charleston, Ohio.

▪ Mother’s Day sales this year are expected to be 1.5 million pounds or 6.5 million pieces of chicken, 815,000 servings of mashed potatoes and gravy, and 470,000 servings of coleslaw.

Now, it is true that Harland Sanders’ mother taught him to cook in 1897, when he was 7 years old. And yet, doesn’t the idea that the best way to celebrate our mothers is with fast-food fried chicken just make you want to put bucket over your head?